Handcrafted as the tactile core of my project, I created this artist's book to revisit my personal history through analog negatives taken by my father throughout my youth. I hand-printed these images in the darkroom and bound them into a unique volume, using the album to investigate photography's power to both preserve and distort my own memories.

As I guide the viewer through the pages, I allow the visual archive to slowly unravel: images gradually give way to empty spaces and written descriptions of unlived moments. By blending these archival remnants with anticipatory texts of what lies ahead, I intentionally keep the book open-ended—a living document where my past recollections meet prospective memory.

I developed this work as my Bachelor’s graduation piece at the Warsaw Film School.